While writing a redo parser for V00D00 I had to investigate this subject very closely from a redo log perspective. And this will be the subject of my 10-minute lightning talk at Oak Table World 2017 at Oracle Open World!

Before we start – in the last blog post (rollback internals) I introduced a new tool for parsing redo log dumps. It was called logfile_dump_parser but since it was a boring name, I decided to call it apud (archivelog parser using dumpfile). If you want to know why it is less boring name, reverse name apud and find the meaning in Polish-English dictionary